my glass is really starting to look bad from this...can i scrape it off?

"Dinky" wrote in message
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| Diatoms. Just wait. It will likely go away soon. Outbreaks of
this are
| fairly common soon after a tank is set up.
|

Odd, it lessened, but never really went away in my tank, 6 months
old. The snails and hermits keep it under control, but I still have
to wipe it off the glass pretty regular.